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Psychopathology Lab
Department of Psychology
University of Houston
126 Heyne Building
Houston, TX 77204-5022
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Publications

Recent Peer-reviewed journal articles and chapters:

In press 

  • Barron, M., Venta, A., Sharp, C., & Mercado, A. (in press). What can we learn from the attachment narratives of Latinx immigrant youth?  Descriptive data with implications for future research. Attachment & Human Development.
  • *Harris, K., *Petitt, K., *Rocha, J., Sharp, C., & Penner, F. (in press). Presence of Meaning in Life Mediates the Relationship between Mindfulness and Resilience in Young Adults. American Journal of Health Promotion. DOI: 10.1080/07448481.2025.2593321 
  • *Allman, M., & Sharp, C. (in press). Recent innovations and developmental considerations in mentalization-based therapy for adolescents: A case illustration. Journal of Clinical Psychology.
  • *Zell, C.S., *Balzen, K.M., *Boudreaux, J., Penner, F., & Sharp, C. (in press). A comparison of borderline personality features and Level of Personality Functioning in explaining mentalizing capacity. Borderline Personality Disorder/Emotion Dysregulation 
  • Komasi, S., Kerber, A., Sharp, C. (in press). Psychometrics of the Personality Inventory for DSM-5 to measure ICD-11 trait model: A meta-analysis. Personality Disorder: Theory, Research and Treatment.
  • *Gecha, T., Sharp, C., Unzurruzaga, E., Eguren, A., & Pérez, L. (in press). Psychometric Evaluation of the Spanish Version of the 5-item Reflective Functioning Questionnaire for Youth. Adolescent Psychiatry.
  • Cervantes, B.R., Allman, M., Vanwoerden, S., & Sharp, C. (in press). Maternal reflective functioning associates with adolescent personality pathology in mother-adolescent dyads. Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy. 
  • *Lubben, A., *Gecha, T., Cano, K., & Sharp, C. (in press). Emotion Dysregulation and Parent Emotion Socialization in Mothers with Borderline Pathology. Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation. 
  • Sharp, C., Barr, C., & *Vanwoerden, S. (in press). Hypermentalizing: The development and validation of a self-report measure.
  • *Cervantes, B.R., *Gecha, T., *Allman, M., *Asim, N., Brashear, B., McFarlane, J., Walton, Q.L., & Sharp, C. (in press). The lived experience of Black mothers: Parenting after intimate partner violence. Violence Against Women. 
  • Sernec, L.P., Tomažič, P., Kramer, A.T., Tololeski, B.P., Tasevski, G., Rozenstein, Z., Klemenčič , S., Battelino, T., Vrhovšek , B., Lahovnik, T., Kovač , J., Sharp, C., Bizjan, B.J., Karakatič, S., & Drobnič Radobuljac, M. (in press). Influences on and prevention of Self-Harm behavior among the Most At-Risk Adolescents: study protocol for the SH-MARA prospective longitudinal cohort study. BMC Psychiatry.
  • Palermo, L., Cavelti, M., Sele, S., Sharp, C., Reichl, C., & Kaess, M. (in press). Personality Functioning Improvements in Adolescents from an Early Intervention Clinic for Personality Disorders. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry [IF:]
  • Klemenčič, S., Drobnič  Radobuljac, M., & Sharp, C. (in press). Personality disorder in young people: Development, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment. International Journal for Behavioral Development [IF: 3.3.]
  • Penner, F., *Ginty, A. T., *Tyra, A. T., *Harris, K., & Sharp, C. (in press). Adverse childhood experiences and hope as risk and protective factors for mental health in the context of COVID-19 stress. Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma.  
  • Komasi, S., Zakiei, A., Haeffel, G.J., Amianto, F., Miettunen, J., & Sharp, C. (in press). Global estimates of natural, unnatural, and all-cause mortality in patients with personality disorders: A meta-analysis of longitudinal studies and meta-regression of potential moderators in a sample of 34 million people. General Hospital Psychiatry. [IF: 3.7]
  • *Kiel, L., *Balzen, K.M., *Cano, K., & Sharp, C. (in press). First U.S. based evaluation of the psychometric properties and clinical utility of the Personality Inventory for DSM-5 Brief Form (PID-5-BF) in adolescents. Journal of Personality Assessment. 
  • Shadid, J., Ferrari, A.J., Bach, B., Sharp, C., Hutsebaut, J., d’Huart, D., Santomauro, D.F., & Chanen, A. (in press). The global epidemiology of personality disorder: A systematic review and meta-regression. Lancet Psychiatry. [IF: 24.8] 
  • Coskun, F., Akça, O., Bilgiç, A. & Sharp, C. (in press). The Reliability and Validity of Personality Inventory for DSM-5–Short Form (PID-5-SF) in Turkish Adolescents. Journal of Personality Disorders. 
  • Nazari, A., Mafakheri, N., Shafiei, R., Nargesi, F., Sharp, C., & Komasi, S. (in press). Decoding personality functioning: the impact of DSM-5 pathological traits mediated by emotion dysregulation and metacognition. Bordereline Personality Disorder/Emotion Dysregulation. 
  • Cano, K., *Asim, N., *Allman, M., & Sharp, C. (in press). The Mediational Intervention for Sensitizing Caregivers: An evalution of feasibility and acceptability among mothers with borderline personality disorder. Borderline Personality Disorder/Emotion Dysregulation.
  • Asgarizadeh, A., Mahdavian, P., & Sharp, C. (in press). An ESEM representation of the Level of Personality Functioning Scale–Brief Form 2.0 in Iranian samples: Association with attachment, mentalizing, and personality pathology. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research and Treatment.
  • Hemmati, A., Nazari, A., Sharp, C., & Komasi, S. A Neural Network Approach to Comparing AMPD and Object Relations Theory for Personality Disorder Assessment. Journal of Personality Assessment. 

2025

  • Sharp, C., Dong, F., *Boone, K., Gilbert, K. E., Tillman, R., Barch, D. M., Luby, J. L., & Whalen, D. J. (2025). Do trajectories of self- and interpersonal functioning identify a core underlying developmental pathway for personality pathology in late adolescence and early adulthood? Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/abn0001044 [IF: 7.8]
  • Simonsen, S., Bo, S., & Sharp, C. (2025). Mentalization-based therapy for personality disorder in adolescents. Current Opinion in Psychiatry. 
  • Jørgensen, M., Høgenhaug, S.; Sharp, C.; Bo, S. (2025). Mentalization-based therapy for borderline personality disorder: state-of-the-science and future directions. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 32(4):e70120, doi: 10.1002/cpp.70120.
  • Jørgensen, M. Cano, C, Sharp, C., Bo, S., Storebø, O., Vestergaard, M., Møller, L., Poulsen, S. Beck, E., & Simonsen, E. (2025). Sleep disturbances in female adolescents with borderline personality disorder: A five-year longitudinal study. Personality and Mental Health, 19(3):e70031. doi: 10.1002/pmh.70031..
  • Sharp, C., Clark, L., Balzen, K., Widiger, T., Stepp, S., Zimmerman, M., & Krueger, R.F. (2025). The validity, reliability and clinical utility of the Alternative DSM-5 Model for Personality Disorder (AMPD) according to DSM-5 revision criteria. World Psychiatry, 24(3), 319-340 [IF: 79.68].
  • *Vanwoerden, S., *Sumlin, E.D., *McLaren, V., & Sharp, C. (2025). Self-report and interview measures of borderline personality disorder are invariant across ethnic/racial groups of inpatient adolescents. Psychological Assessment, 37(9), 415–427.
  • *Cervantes, B.R., *Allman, M. *Wolf, H., *Asim, N., Walton, Q.L., McFarlane, J., & Sharp, C. (2025). Quality of home environment and mental health problems for children living in an intimate partner violence rehousing program. Mental Health Science.
  • Berger Cardoso, J., *Bjugstad, A., *Hernandez Ortiz, J.G., Mohr Avitia, G., Hernandez, N., Perez Portiallo, A.G., Brabeck, K., Borelli, J.L., & Sharp, C. (2025). Central American and Mexican mothers and youth migration-related separations and reunifications. Journal of Loss and Trauma, 30(8), 1103-1133. 
  • Gori, A., Topino, E., & Sharp, C. (in press). Clinicians assessment of Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD): A network analysis approach on DSM-5-TR criteria and domains. Personality and Mental Health. 
  • Akça, O.F., Cano, K., & Sharp, C. (in press). The Relationship Between Personality Inventory for DSM (PID-5) Domains and Disruptive Behavior Disorders. Scandinavian Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology.
  • *Ran, T., *Balzen, K.M., *Kerr, S., Hutsebaut, J., & Sharp, C. (2025). Level of Personality Functioning Scale - Brief Form 2.0: Factor Structure and Clinical Cut-offs. Journal of Personality Disorders, 39(3), 185-205 .
  • *Alacha, A.F., Sharp, C., Kujawa, A., Babinski, D.E. (2025). Altered Social Processing as a Potential Mechanisms of BPD Risk in Girls with ADHD: A Call for Multi-Method Developmental Research. Journal of Psychiatry and Brain Science, 10(1), e250001. https://doi.org/10.20900/jpbs.20250001.
  • Hutsebaut, J., & Sharp, C. (2025). Opportunities for the AMPD: Comment on Hopwood, 2024. Journal of Personality Assessment, 107(2):159-163.
  • Boone, K., Balzen, K.M., Sharp, C. (2025). Impairment in personality functioning predicts young adult suicidal ideation and suicide attempt above and beyond depressive symptoms. Research in Psychotherapy: Psychopathology, Process and Outcome, 27(3), 814. https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.814. 
  • *Boone, K., Babinski, D.E., Kujawa, A., Pegg, S., Sharp, C. (2025). The Incremental Validity of Level of Personality Functioning over Borderline Personality Features in Associations with Early Adolescent Social Reward Processing. Personality and Mental Health, 19(1):e70000, doi: 10.1002/pmh.70000.
  • *Allman, M., Barkauskienė, R., Gervinskaitė-Paulaitienė, L., & Sharp, C. (2025). Psychometric Evaluation and Validation of the Revised Borderline Personality Features Scale for Children (BPFSC-11) in Lithuanian Adolescents. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000884 
  • Sharp, C., Cano, K., Kassin, M., & Goth, K. (2025). First psychometric evaluation of the Mexican Spanish version of the 11-item BPFSC-11 and convergence with maladaptive self and interpersonal functioning. Personality and Mental Health, 19(1),e1651. doi: 10.1002/pmh.1651.

2024 

  • *Shah, A., *Balzen, K.M., Hill, R.M., Busby, D., Brown, J., *Fernandez, E., Tadi, N.F., & Sharp, C. (2024). Examining the associations between ethnic identity and suicidal ideation among Black youth. Journal of Applied Research on Children.
  • Keepers, G.A., Fochtmann, L.J., Anzia, J.M., Benjamin, S., Lyness, J.M., Mojtabai, R., Servis, M., Choi-Kain, L., Nelson, K.J., Oldham, J.M., Sharp, C., & Degenhardt, A. (2024).  The American Psychiatric Association Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients With Borderline Personality Disorder. American Journal of Psychiatry, 181(11), 1024-1028. [IF: 18.1]
  • Tironi, M., Rozenberg, A., McLoughlin, M., Shkel, J., *Cervantes, B.R., De Los Reyes, A., Sharp, C., & Borelli, J.L. (2024). Naïve observers’ perceptions of clinical and community adolescents’ depressive symptoms. Behavior Therapy, 56(4), 768-784..
  • *Balzen, K.M., Sharp, C., Unzurruzaga, E., Eguren, A. & Perez, L. (2024). The Spanish Version of the Level of Personality Functioning Scale – Brief Form 2.0 (LPFS-BF 2.0):  Psychometric evaluation in adolescents who have suffered from parental abuse and neglect and a community sample. Scandinavian Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology, 12(1), 20240012.
  • Jørgensen, M., Sharp, C., Bo, S., Møhl, B., Kongerslev, M.T., Møller, L., Vestergaard, M., Storebø, O.J., Oulsen, T., Beck, E., & Simonsen, E. (2024). Trajectory of non-suicidal self-injury among adolescents with borderline personality disorder over a 5-year period. Borderline Personality Disorder/Emotion Dysregulation, 11, 28 https://doi.org/10.1186/s40479-024-00272-1.  
  • Balzen, K.M., & Sharp, C. (2024). The contribution of mentalization-based theory and practice to for understanding and treating self-injurious behavior in young people. Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy, 23(1), 108-121.
  • *Gecha, T., *McLaren, V., Sharp, C. (2024). Clinical Cut-off Scores for the Borderline Personality Features Scale for Children to Differentiate Among Adolescents with Borderline Personality Disorder, Other Psychopathology, and No Psychopathology. Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation.
  • *Boone, K., Choi-Kain, L.W., Sharp C. (2024). The Relevance of Generalist Approaches for Earlier Intervention for Personality Disorder. American Journal of Psychotherapy. doi: 10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.20230050
  • Filosa, M., Sharp, C. Gori, A., & Musetti, A. (2024). A Comprehensive Scoping Review of empirical studies on Earned Secure Attachment. Psychological Reports.
  • Sharp, C., & Rossouw, T. (2024). Mentalization-based Treatment for Adolescents (MBT-A). Journal of the Academy of Psychoanalysis and Psychodyamic Psychiatry 52(4), 542-562. 
  • Jewell, T., *McLaren, V., & Sharp, C. (2024). Psychometric properties of the Reflective Function Questionnaire for Youth Five-Item version in adolescents with restrictive eating disorders. Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment.
  • Wais, M, Bégin, M., Sharp, C., & Ensink, K. (2024). Trauma-related symptoms in adolescents: the differential roles of sexual abuse and mentalizing. Frontiers in Psychology, 15:1364001.
  • Taubner, S., & Sharp, C. (2024). Mental flexibility and epistemic trust through social and implicit learning - a meta-model of change processes in psychotherapy. Clinical Psychology in Europe.
  • *Balzen, K.M., *Kerr, S., *Gecha, T., Hutsebaut, J., Berghuis, H., & Sharp, C. (2024). First psychometric evaluation of the English version of the Semi-Structured Interview for Personality Functioning (STiP-5.1). Journal of Personality Assessment. [IF = 3.6] 
  • Sharp, C., Kulesz, P., *Kerr, S. (2024). Comparing the DSM-5 categorical model of personality disorders and the Alternative Model of Personality disorders regarding clinician judgments of risk and outcome. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment. [IF = 3.5] 
  • *Wu, J., *Allman, M., *Balzen, K.M., Hutsebaut, J., & Sharp, C. (2024). First Psychometric Evaluation of the LPFS-BF 2.0 in Adolescents. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research and Treatment.
  • *Kerr, S., *Cervantes, B.R., Stepp, S., Sharp, C. (2024). Maternal borderline personality disorder severity and parenting behaviors during conflict discussions with adolescent offspring. Journal of Personality Disorders.
  • Williams, R., Fiorentino, F., Moselli, M., Sharp, C., & Lingiardi, V., Tanzilli, A. (2024). The Assessment of Pathways Toward Suicide in Adolescent Patients: A PDM-2-Oriented Approach. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice.
  • Szabó, B., Miklósi, M., Sharp, C., & Futó, J. 2024). The Reflective Function Questionnaire for Youth: Hungarian adaptation and evaluation of associations with quality of life and psychopathology. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 
  • *Cervantes, B.R., *Allman, M., Walton, Q. L., Jouriles, E.N., & Sharp, C. (2024). Considerations in cultural adaptation of parent-child interventions for African American mothers and children exposed to intimate partner violence. Frontiers in Psychology.
  • Kubicka, K., Woźniak-Prus, M., Sharp, C., & Gambin, M. (2024). Relations between attachment to mother and father, childhood maltreatment, and body shame in inpatient adolescents. Journal of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy. 
  • Tanzilli, A., Fiorentino, F., Liotti, M., Bugli, G.,L., Gualco, I., Sharp, C., Lingiardi, V., & Williams, R. (2024). Patient Personality and Therapist Responses in the Psychotherapy of Adolescents With Depressive Disorders: Toward the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual-Third Edition (PDM-3) Research in Psychotherapy: Psychopathology, Process, and Outcome.  
  • *Gecha, T., Glass, I., Frankenburg, F., Sharp, C., Zanarini, M. (2024). Experiential Avoidance in Participants with Borderline Personality Disorder and Other Personality Disorders. Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation.
  • *Rucker, J., Berry, B., & Sharp, C. (2024). Assessing Criterion A of the Alternative Model for Personality Disorders: The potential of performance-based personality measures. Journal of Personality Disorders, 38(2), 171-194.
  • Zandpour, M., Lind, M., Sharp, C., Hasani, J., & Borelli, J.L. (2024). Attachment-based Mentalizing Profiles in Iranian Children: A Mixed-Methods Approach. Children 11(2), 258. 
  • Picou, P., Kemp, E.C., Ferreira, R., Sharp, C., & Hill, R. (2024). Familism Moderates the Association Between Parent-Child Conflict, Interpersonal Needs, and Suicidal Ideation among Adolescents. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 
  • *Allman, M., *Song, H., Venta, A., Serekoane, M., Pienaar, M., Lenka, M., Marais, K., Cloete, J., Marais, L., & Sharp, C. (2024). In Their Own Words: Linguistic Analysis of Interviews with Sesotho Mothers on Their Child’s First Thousand Days. Child Psychiatry and Human Development. 
  • Taubner, S., & Sharp, C. (2024). Mentale Flexibilität durch soziales implizites Lernen - ein Metamodell für Veränderungsprozesse in der Psychotherapie. Die Psychoterapie. (English title: Mental flexibility through implicit social learning – a meta-model for change mechanisms in psychotherapy) 
  • Babinski, D.E., Kujawa, A., Pegg, S., Leslie, J. M., Pothoven, C. Waschbusch, D. A., & Sharp, C. (2024). Social and Monetary Processing in Youth with Early Emerging Personality Pathology: An RDoC-Informed Study. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 52(4):567-578 
  • Gambin, M., Wnuk, A., Oleksy, T., Kubicka, K., Sękowski, M., Woźniak-Prus, M., Sharp, C., & Bonanno, G. (2024).  Trajectories of depressive and anxiety symptoms in Polish adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic and the outbreak of war in Ukraine. Development and Psychopthology. 
  • *Balzen, K. M., *Blacutt, M., Lind, M., *Penner, F., & Sharp, C. (2024). Awareness of Narrative Identity Questionnaire (ANIQ) in adolescents: Psychometric evaluation and association with features of personality disorder. Journal of Personality Assessement, 106(3), 337-346. [IF = 3.5]
  •  *Allman, M., Nava, A., *Asim, N., Brashear, B., Walton, Q.L., McFarlane, J., & Sharp, C. (2024). Using the Colaizzi Method to Explore Intimate Partner Violence Caseworkers’ Subjective Experience: Pathways to Intimate Partner Violence Work and What Keeps Them Going. Violence against women, 30(1). 174-188. 
  • Twitty, T.D., Hitch, A.E., Marais, L., Sales, J.M., Sharp, C., Cloete, J., Lenka, M., Rani, K., Gause, N.K., & Brown, J.L. (2024). Pregnancy and STI/HIV Prevention Intervention Needs of South African Adolescent Girls: Findings from a Cultural Consensus Modeling Qualitative Study. Culture, Health and Sexuality.

 

Books:

  • Hopwood, C., Sharp, C., & Krueger, R. (in press). Dimensional Diagnosis: Practical and Conceptual Issues in the Integration of Personality and Psychopathology. New York: Guilford Press.
  • Sharp, C., & Bevington, D. (2022). Mentalizing in psychotherapy: A guide for practitioners. New York, NY: Guilford Publications, Inc. (Dutch, German, Italian and Russian translations).
  • Sharp, C., & Marais, L. (Eds) (2022). Growing up resilient: The Mediational Intervention for Sensitizing Caregivers. Routledge.
  • Sharp, C., Tackett, J., Riccardi, I., & Fiore, D. (Eds) (2021). Manuale del disturb Borderline di Personalita nell’infanzia e nell’adolescenza. Rome: FrancoAngeli.
  • Choi-Kain, L.W., & Sharp, C. (Eds.) (2021). Handbook of Good Psychiatric Management for Adolescents (GPM-A) with Borderline Personality Disorder. Washington: American Psychiatric Association. (French, Portuguese translations)
  • Venta, A., Sharp, C., Fonagy, P., Fletcher, J.M. (Eds) (2021). Developmental psychopathology. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Sharp, C., & Tackett, J. (Eds.). (2014). Handbook of Borderline Personality Disorder in Children and Adolescents. New York, NY: Springer.
  • Sharp, C., Fonagy, P., Goodyer, I.M.  (Eds.). (2008). Social cognition and developmental psychopathology. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
  • Ross, D., Sharp, C., Vuchinich, R. and Spurrett, D. (2008). Midbrain mutiny: Behavioral economics and neuroeconomics of gambling addiction as basic reward system disorder. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Chapters

  • Jørgensen, M. & Sharp, C. (under review). Borderline personality disorder in adolescents. Reproductive Medicine for Clinicians. Adolescence: A Challenging Time for Physical, Mental and Social Health, and Diseases. Springer.
  • Hopwood, C., Sharp, C., & Krueger, RF. (in press). Dimensional diagnosis: Practical and conceptual issues in the integration of personality and psychopathology.
  • Clark, L., & Sharp, C. (under review). Personality dysfunction: Conceptual and measurement issues in diagnosing personality pathology. In A. Uliaszek and C. Hopwood. Personality functioning and personality pathology. New York: Guilford Press.
  • *Zell, C. & Sharp, C. (in press). Developmental personality-psychopathology spectrum approaches: Are traits enough? In C. Hopwood, C. Sharp, & R. Krueger, Dimensional Diagnosis: Practical and Conceptual Issues in the Integration of Personality and Psychopathology. New York: Guilford Press.
  • Sharp, C. (in press). A developmental perspective on personality functioning. In A. Uliaszek and C. Hopwood. Personality functioning and personality pathology. New York: Guilford Press.
  • Sharp, C., & *Balzen, K., (in press). Considerations in working with adolescents with BPD. In S. Sauer-Zavala and M. Southward (Eds). Oxford Handbook of Borderline Personality Disorder. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Sharp, C., *Gecha, T., *Balzen, K.M., & *Boone, K. (in press). Clinical Application of the Alternative Model for Personality Disorders to Young People. In Mulay, A. and Yalch, M. (Eds). Clinical Applications of the DSM-5 Alternative Model for Personality Disorders. Wiley.
  • Jørgensen, M.S., Bo, S., & Sharp, C. (in press). Mentalization-based therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder. In S. Sauer-Zavala & M. Southward (Ed.). Oxford Handbook of Borderline Personality Disorder. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 
  • Sharp, C. & Bleiberg, E., (in press). Personality Disorders in Children and Adolescents. In A. Van Schalkwyk, G. (Ed.), Lewis Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Comprehensive Textbook (6th Ed). Baltimore, MD: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
  • Sharp, C., & *Boone, K. (in press). The dimensionalization of personality pathology: The state of the science. In C. Conway and R. Krueger (eds). Handbook of Dimensional Models of Psychopathology. Oxford University Press.
  • Behn, A., & Sharp, C. (2025). Re-examining the role of suicidal behavior in Personality Disorder: Current diagnostic considerations and cultural variability. In A. Jimenez-Molina & V. Martinez (Eds), New Perspectives on Suicidal Behavior: Cultural Context, Clinical Assessment, and Intervention, (pp.43-66), Springer.
  • Sharp, C., Bo, S., & Chanen, A. (2025). ICD-11 Personality Disorders: Application to youth. In B. Bach (Ed). ICD-11 Personality Disorders: Assessment and Treatment, pp. 595–616. Oxford University Press.
  • Bo, S., Sharp, C., Lind, M. (2025). ICD-11 defined personality dysfunction, Maladaptive Social Cognition and Perspective-Taking. In B. Bach (Ed). ICD-11 and the personality disorders. Oxford University Press.
  • Sharp, C., & *Balzen, K. (2025). Trust in borderline personality disorder. In K. Rotenberg (Ed). Handbook of trust, p 270-287. Elgar Press
  • Hutsebaut, J., & Sharp, C. (2023). Epistemisches Vertrauen in der Gherapie Heranwachsender (Epistemic trust in adolescent therapy). In T. Nolte and P. Fonagy (Eds). Epistemiches Vertrauen.
  • *Kerr, S., *Cano, K., Sharp, C. (2022). The Mediational Intervention for Sensitizing Caregivers: Building Resilience and Preventing Mental Health Problems. Texas Psychologist, 81(1), 13-17.
  • Sharp, C., *Cano, K., Bo, S., & Hutsebaut, J. (2022). The assessment of personality function in adolescents. In S.K. Huprich (Ed). Personality disorders and pathology: Integrating clinical assessment and practice in the DSM-5 and ICD-11 era (pp. 109-134). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
  • Sharp, C., & Marais, L. (2022). The Mediational Intervention for Sensitizing Caregivers: A pathway to resilience. In C. Sharp and L. Marais (Eds.) Growing up resilient: The Mediational Intervention for Sensitizing Caregivers (pp. 1-12). London: Routledge.
  • Sharp, C., *Allman, M., Cloete, J., & Marais, L. (2022). The Mediational Intervention for Sensitizing Caregivers for community-based organizations to address the needs of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in South Africa. In C. Sharp and L. Marais (Eds.) Growing up resilient: The Mediational Intervention for Sensitizing Caregivers (pp. 102-121). London: Routledge.
  • *Wall, K., *Kerr, S., & Sharp, C. (2022). Caregivers with Borderline Personality Disorder: The promise of MISC. In C. Sharp and L. Marais (Eds.) Growing up resilient: The Mediational Intervention for Sensitizing Caregivers (pp. 136-152). London: Routledge.
  • Venta, A., Brabeck, K., Berger Cardoso, J., Bjugstad, A., *Hernandez Ortiz, J., Prosperi, N., & Sharp, C. (2022).  MISC applied to families reunited after migration-related separation. In C. Sharp and L. Marais (Eds.) Growing up resilient: The Mediational Intervention for Sensitizing Caregivers (pp. 167-180). London: Routledge.
  • Cardoso, J. B., Brabeck, K., Bjugstad, A., *Ortiz, J. H., Prosperi, N., Venta, A., & Sharp, C. (2022). Migrant mothers’ and youths’ experiences of separation and reunification. In J. E. Glick, V. King, & S. M. McHale (Eds.), Parent-child separation: Causes, consequences, and pathways to resilience (pp. 55–84). Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
  • Brashear, B., Bickel, J., *McLaren V., Walton, Q., McFarlane, J., & Sharp, C. (2022). The Mediational Intervention for Sensitizing Caregivers for mothers and children exposed to Intimate Partner Violence. In Sharp and Marais (Eds.) Growing up resilient: The Mediational Intervention for Sensitizing Caregivers (pp. 181-196). London: Routledge.
  • Sharp, C., & Tackett, J. (2021), Introduzione: un concetto del quale è ora di parlare. In Sharp, C., Tackett, J., Riccardi, I., & Fiore, D. (Eds) (2021). Manuale del disturb Borderline di Personalita nell’infanzia e nell’adolescenza. Rome: FrancoAngeli.
  • Sharp, C. (2021). La base socio-cognitiva del Disturbo Borderline di Personalità: la teoria della iper-mentalizzazione. In Sharp, C., Tackett, J., Riccardi, I., & Fiore, D. (Eds) (2021). Manuale del disturb Borderline di Personalita nell’infanzia e nell’adolescenza. Rome: FrancoAngeli.
  • *Walker, J., Sharp, C., & Venta, A. C. (2021). Novel collaboration meets pressing mental health needs in Houston’s food and beverage industry workforce while addressing clinical training gaps caused by COVID-19. Texas Psychologist 80(1), 5-7.
  • Sharp, C., & *Hernandez, J. (2021). Mindreading and Psychopathology in Middle Childhood and Adolescence. In S. Lecce & R.T. Devine. Theory of Mind in Middle Childhood and Adolescence: Integrating Multiple Perspectives (pp. 231-252). London: Taylor and Francis.
  • *Kerr, S., Fonagy, P., & Sharp, C. (2021). Emerging personality disorders. In Venta, Sharp, Fonagy & Fletcher (Eds). Developmental Psychopathology (pp. 335-364). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • *Penner, F., & Sharp, C. (2021). Depression. In Venta, Sharp, Fonagy & Fletcher (Eds). Developmental Psychopathology, (pp. 221-251). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Venta, A., Sharp, C., & Fonagy, P. (2021). Quo vadis? In Venta, Sharp, Fonagy & Fletcher (Eds). Developmental Psychopathology (pp. 423-437-364). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • *Wall, K., *Sumlin, E., & Sharp, C. (2021). Traditional approaches to child psychohpathology. In A. Venta, C. Sharp, P. Fonagy & J. Fletcher (Eds.), Developmental Psychopathology (pp. 3-17). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Sharp, C., *Kerr, S., & Chanen, A. (2021). Early identification and prevention of personality pathology: An AMPD informed model of clinical staging. In A.  Skodol and J. Oldham (Eds). The American Psychiatric Association Textbook of Personality Disorders (pp. 285-337). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association.
  • *McLaren, V., & Sharp, C. (2020). What is mentalizing? In Williams, L., & Muir, O. (Eds.) Adolescent Suicide and Self-Injury - Mentalizing Theory and Treatment (pp. 1-15). Springer.
  • DeClercq, B. & Sharp, C. (2020). Bridging Diverging Perspectives: Rejoinder to Vernberg and Abel and Beauchaine. In K. Gratz and C. Lejeuz (Eds.). Handbook of Personality Disorders (pp. 99-102). Cambridge University Press.
  • Sharp, C., & DeClercq, B. (2020). Personality pathology in children and adolescents. In K. Gratz and C. Lejeuz (Eds.). Handbook of Personality Disorders (pp. 74-90). Cambridge University Press.
  • Sharp, C., & Rossouw, T. (2019). Working with borderline teens. In A. Bateman and P. Fonagy (Eds). Handbook of mentalizing in mental health practice (3rd edition) (pp. 281-300). New York: Wiley.
  • Sharp, C., Shohet, C., Givon, D., Marais, L., & Boivin, M. (2018). Early childhood interventions: A focus on responsive caregiving. In M. Tomlinson, A. Stevenson, and C. Hanlon (Eds.). Child and adolescent development in Africa in the context of the sustainable development goals (pp.245-270). Cape Town: UCT Press.
  • Marais, L., Rani, K., Sharp, C., Skinner, D., Serekoane, J., Cloete, J., Pappin, M., Lenka, M. (2018). What role for community? Critical reflections on state-driven support for vulnerable children and orphans in South Africa. In Westoby, P (eds). & Shevellar, L. (eds.), Routledge Research Companion to Community Development. London: Routledge.
  • Sharp, C., & Michonski, J. (2019). Personality Disorders. In Ollendick, T.H., White, S.W., and White, B.A. (Eds.). Oxford Handbook of Clinical Child and Adolescent psychology, pp. 459-474. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • *Wall, K.,*Leavitt, J., & Sharp, C. (2019). Personality disorders in adolescence. In S. Hupp & J. Jewell (Eds.), The Encyclopedia for Child and Adolescent Development. New York: Wiley.
  • Bleiberg, E., & Sharp, C. (2018). Personality Disorders in Children and Adolescents: A Focus on Borderline Personality Disorder. In A. Martin and F. Volkmar (Eds.), Lewis Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Comprehensive Textbook (5th Ed) (p. 680). Baltimore, MD: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
  • *Kalpakci, A., *Vanwoerden, S., & Sharp, C. (2018). Personality disorders. In M. Pissacroia (Ed). Textbook of Mental and Behavioral Disorders in Adolescence, pp. 387-411. Piccin.
  • Sharp, C. (2018). Close-up: General (g) and specific (s) factors in the diagnosis of personality disorders. In R. J. Cohen & M.E. Swerdlik (Eds). Psychological Testing and Assessment, pp.445-446. McGraw-Hill.
  • Sharp, C., & *Long, T. (2017). Personality disorders: psychological factors. In A. Wenzel (Ed.), The sage encyclopedia of abnormal and clinical psychology (Vol. 1, pp. 2556-2558). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781483365817.n1025
  • Sharp, C., & *Mellick, W. (2017). Childhood depression. In B. Hopkins, R.G. Barr, G.F. Michel, & P. Rochat (Eds.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development, pp. 641-646. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • *Kalpakci, A., & Sharp, C. (2017). Borderline personality disorder and gender. In K. Nadal (Ed.), The SAGE encyclopedia of psychology and gender (pp. 244-246). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781483384269.n79
  • Sharp, C., & Trull, T. J. (2017). Emotion dysregulation in adolescents with Borderline Personality Disorder. In Essau, C., Leblanc, S., & Ollendick, T. (Eds.). Emotion Regulation and Psychopathology in Children and Adolescents (pp. 259-280). Oxford University Press.
  • *Kalpakci, A., & Sharp, C. (2015). Assessing for Personality Disorders in the African American Client. In L. T. Benuto, & B. D. Leany (Eds.), Guide to Psychological Assessment with African Americans (pp. 217-236). New York: Springer.
  • Sharp, C., & Tackett, J. (2014). An idea whose time has come. In C. Sharp & J. Tackett (Eds.), Handbook of Borderline Personality Disorder in Children and Adolescents (pp. 3-8). New York, NY: Springer.
  • Sharp, C. (2014). The social-cognitive basis of BPD: A theory of hypermentalizing. In C. Sharp & J. Tackett (Eds.), Handbook of Borderline Personality Disorder in Children and Adolescents (pp. 211-228). New York, NY: Springer.
  • *Ha, C., & Sharp, C. (2014). Assessing for Personality Disorders in the Asian Client. In L. T. Benuto, N. Thaler, & B. D. Leany (Eds.), Guide to Psychological Assessment with Asian Americans pp. 261-278).
  • Fonagy, P., Rossouw, T., Sharp, C., Bateman, A., Allison, L., & Farrar, C. (2014). Mentalization-based treatment for adolescents with borderline traits. In C. Sharp & J. Tackett (Eds.), Handbook of Borderline Personality Disorder in Children and Adolescents (pp. 313-332). New York, NY: Springer.
  • *Venta, A., *Herzoff, K., Cohen, P., & Sharp, C. (2014). The Longitudinal Course of Borderline Personality Disorder in Youth. In C. Sharp & J. Tackett (Eds.), Handbook of Borderline Personality Disorder in Children and Adolescents (pp. 229-246). New York, NY: Springer.
  • Bleiberg, E., Rossouw, T., Sharp, C., & Fonagy, P. (2012). Adolescent breakdown and emerging borderline personality disorder. In (Bateman, A. & Fonagy, P). Handbook of mentalizing in mental health practice. American Psychiatric Publishing, Washington, DC.
  • Sharp, C., & *Venta, A. (2012). Mentalizing problems in children and adolescents. In N. Midgley, and I. Vrouva (Eds.), Minding the Child:  Mentalization-based Interventions with Children, Young People and their Families (pp. 35-53). New York, NY: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group.
  • Fonagy, P., & Sharp, C. (2008). Treatment outcome of childhood psychological disturbance: The perspective of social cognition. In C. Sharp, P. Fonagy, and I. M. Goodyer (Eds.), Social cognition and Developmental Psychopathology (pp. 409-468). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
  • Sharp, C., Fonagy, P., & Goodyer, I.M. (2008). Introduction: Social cognition and developmental psychopathology. In C. Sharp, P. Fonagy, and I. M. Goodyer (Eds.), Social cognition and Developmental Psychopathology (pp. 1-28). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
  • Sharp, C., & Fonagy P. (2008). Social cognition and attachment-related disorders. In C. Sharp, P. Fonagy, and I. M. Goodyer (Eds.), Social cognition and Developmental Psychopathology (pp. 269-302). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
  • Sharp, C., & Beckmann, K. M. (2007). Human Development. In A. Michael and B. Underwood (Eds.), 1500 Questions in Psychiatry (pp. 107-113). Edinburgh, UK: Churchill Livingston.
  • Sharp, C. (2006). Mentalizing problems in childhood disorders. In J.G. Allen & P. Fonagy (Eds.), Handbook of mentalization-based treatments (pp. 201-212). Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons.
  • Sharp, C., & Bleiberg, E. (2006). Borderline Personality Disorder in children and adolescents. In A. Martin and F. Volkmar (Eds.), Lewis Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Comprehensive Textbook (4th Ed) (pp.680-691). Baltimore, MD: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
  • Goodyer, I. M., & Sharp, C. (2005). Childhood depression. In B. Hopkins, R.G. Barr, G.F. Michel, & P. Rochat (Eds.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Book Reviews:

  • Sharp, C., & Rossouw, T. (under contract). Borderline personality disorder in adolescents: A mentalizing framework. American Psychological Association.

  • Sharp, C. (2010). Book review. Dialectical Behavior Therapy. The Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 74(1), 81-85.

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  • Sharp, C. (2008). Book review. A generation at risk: The global impact of HIV/AIDS on orphans and vulnerable children. Psychological Medicine, 38, 1211-1212.

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  • Sharp, C. (2002). Book review. Sex differences in antisocial behaviour: Conduct Disorder, Delinquency and Violence in the Dunedin Longitudinal Study. Psychological Medicine, 32, 1-2.

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Other publications:

  • Sharp, C. (2014).  Distorted Mentalizing Task. French version (with permission of C. Sharp): Girard, E. Instrument mentalisation traduction. Universite de Sherbooke.

  • Sharp, C. (2009). Distorted Mentalizing Task. Italian version (with permission of C. Sharp): O. Liverta Sempio, E. Di Terlizzi, "Il bambino e le relazioni sociali. Strumenti per educatori e insegnanti" (The child and the social relationships. Measures for educators and teachers) edited by Antonella Marchetti and  Annalisa Valle and published by Franco Angeli (Milano).

To obtain copies of the original task, please contact Carla Sharp at  csharp2@uh.edu. To obtain a copy of the Italian version of the task, please email Olga Liverta Sempio at  olga.liverta@tiscali.it.